Michael Mergenthaler

Michael Mergenthaler (23 September 1767-) was a Field Marshal of the Austrian Empire. Mergenthaler was a veteran of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Michael Mergenthaler was born on 23 September 1767 in Miskolc, Kingdom of Hungary, in the Austrian Empire (present-day Hungary) to an Austrian family. His father Hans Mergenthaler was an officer in the Grenzers, while his mother Sophia Baumann was a local German Hungarian. Michael Mergenthaler attended the officer's school at Budapest in 1784 and graduated in 1790, and Mergenthaler served in the French Revolutionary Wars against the First French Republic. Mergenthaler was wounded at the Battle of Fleurus in 1794, and he was promoted to Captain. He was promoted to Major-General in 1808 after some involvement in the War of the Third Coalition, and he fought the Grande Armee in Poland during the Napoleonic Wars. Mergenthaler was made a Lieutenant-General in 1823, a full General in 1825, and a Field Marshal in 1832. In January 1838 he was given command of the 21,000-strong Austrian 5th Army in Budapest on the border with the Russian Empire.